Distance from your house to BDTBL according to Google Maps

[Conroy]

7272km...or there abouts

 

[HuddersfieldBlade]

My uncle used to live 0.1 miles away, he had the house on the corner of Cherry Street and Shoreham Street in the 1970s

 

[MancBlade85]

44 miles but often feels like 44,000 when i'm stuck behind somone doing 20 on the snake pass on my way to a game.

 

[Peter Fisher]

2468kms

 

[essex blade]

194 miles for me

 

[bladesadviser]

201 miles according to Google Maps and it feels it after a defeat

 

[Arcadia Blade]

4.353 miles or 7007 km for me

 

[Tom Bott]

2468kms

Do you listen to this on matchdays then?

 

[LudlamBlade]

My "house" is moving about, today we're in Antigua...tomorrow St Kitts

Yes, that's a brag, what of it

 

[Inter_blade83]

Grew up near Heeley City Farm, so 0.7 miles for me and could see the Kop from our attic window.

Now I'm 4,726 miles away and would take 3 days to drive home, going through Iraq on the way. Can still see a stadium from my window in Lusail.

 

[metalblade]

15 miles if I use the A57 or a faster route is 16.2 miles via the M1 and Parkway

 

[I should coco]

A 2.9 mile walk, but the prevailng Westerly winds usually push me via the Cremorne.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Just over 9 miles.

 

[cahill]

Closest to Lane I’ve lived was probably Kelvin

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Closest to Lane I’ve lived was probably Kelvin

How's the old lad doing these days?

 

[BlairBlade]

It’s a long time ago now, around the mid 60s, but I remember you had a choice (or maybe your parents wielded a fair bit of influence) of probably/maybe of 5 schools in order of preference - assuming you passed the 11+.
King Teds was invariably first followed by High Storrs or Abbeydale then, as I recall, Rowlinson might be fourth. Can’t remember if there was any other school after that.
I am assuming, depending on where you lived in the city, if you failed the 11+ you would go to Silverdale, which surely wasn’t the only school for those who at 11 didn’t pass the exams.
I am sure that the ‘grammar’ system was an essential part of social mobility, which has certainly slowed down massively over the past couple of generations. Not sure that branding children at 11 as failures for not passing a set of exams based in maths and English and, I think, a bit of general knowledge was an intelligent or the best way to proceed.
However, as I recall the ‘grammar’ system was doing a remarkable job at ‘levelling up’ for those fortunate to be in the system and who succeeded in taking advantage of it. So much so that the private schools was having serious problems and some falling by the wayside as they were no longer in a position to show that they any real justifiable advantages, which had so often been simply assumed over parts of the state system.
However, the comprehensive school system seemed a reasonable and sensible option to move to, at least in the attempt to stop children being branded as failures, but over time it looks as though it threw the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[Nesh Blade]

Think I’m the closest on thread so far at 0.2 miles. Have done door to seat in 10 mins

 

[Book him Danno]

Think I’m the closest on thread so far at 0.2 miles. Have done door to seat in 10 mins

500 miles (walked it once) and then I walked 500 mo is

Think I’m the closest on thread so far at 0.2 miles. Have done door to seat in 10 mins

 

[Houston_Blade]

4,757 miles at the moment for me.

By this summer I’ll be 13 miles away.

 

[scouseblade]

84 miles

 

[georgethecat]

357 miles and the Irish sea to cross

 

[alehousekid]

Back in the 70s around 100yds (Shoreham St), 80s around 500 yds (Charlotte Rd), 2000's 150yds (Edmund Rd). Now out at Hackenthorpe so just over 5 miles. Reet trek

 

[PTBlade]

2,230 km

 

[breeny]

27.5 miles

 

[SUFC Guy]

Think I’m the closest on thread so far at 0.2 miles. Have done door to seat in 10 mins

Got a spare driveway for hire?

 

[Pawk Patrol]

4.1 miles and walked there and back on NYD.

 

[DorsetSUFC]

244 miles - using farm tracks, M5, M42 & M1.

 

[Cassius Kray]

Third closest here. Interesting how many of you so-called fans decided to move away from the Lane when you got the chance.

Think I’m the closest on thread so far at 0.2 miles. Have done door to seat in 10 mins

Used to live around the corner from the Sportsman on Denby Street and once almost missed a 3pm kickoff after oversleeping. Students eh!

 

[Kenilworth]

7,280 miles.. I dunna get there much mind

Fucking part timer

 

[Kenilworth]

876 km, which is 544 miles.

Appreciate you translating to English, Bergers